Wisdom Quotes - Page 8

• Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

  Wallace Stegner

  Knowing, Understanding, Accepting

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• You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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  Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Hands, Decision

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

  William Stafford

  Life, Learning, Knowing

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.34, Macmillan

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• A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

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• Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

  Edward Thorndike

  Wise, Fall, Writing

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• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Book

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Wise, Mistake, Learning

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• Coincidences are spiritual puns.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Destiny, Everything Happens For A Reason

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• Cleverness is not wisdom.

  Euripides

  Life And Love, Silly, Knowledge

  Euripides (1999). “Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus”, p.185, Clarendon Press

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• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Marriage

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  It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

  Voltaire

  Freedom, Fool, Vegan

  "Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers: Troisième Entretien". Book by Voltaire, 1767.

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• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Kindness, Caring

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• Look for the answer inside your question.

  Rumi

  Wise, Clever, Looks

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• Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

  Khalil Gibran

  Words Of Wisdom

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

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• With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.

  Dalai Lama

  Confidence, Wise, Self Esteem

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Future, Responsibility

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

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• We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wise, Stupid, Silly

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 49, 1799.

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• Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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